World Boxing Association and International Boxing Organization middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin may not be keen on entertaining a fight with veteran boxer Bernard Hopkins at the moment.

The unbeaten Kazakh warrior, who left 30 out of 33 of his past opponents trembling after suffering a TKO loss, has something else in mind, according to Tom Loeffler, managing director of K2 Promotions.

"Gennady's focus is on unifying the middleweight titles right now," Loffler told Boxing Scene.

The decision to just center his attention on such goal may suggest that he is looking forward to clashing with the winner of the Cotto-Canelo fight happening in November. Being the World Boxing Council mandatory challenger and interim champion, he rightfully needs to be prepared for the emerging victor between Miguel Cotto and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Thus, he is also in the right path to plan matches not going beyond the 160 pound weight class.

The 50-year-old Hopkins has recently declared that he wants to face Golovkin to mark his stellar career with a sensational final bout.

"I was the middleweight terror for twelve years of my career. You have guys turning down $2 million dollars not to fight this guy. I would have fought him for $50 thousand back then because I wanted to show that I was the best fighter in my weight division," Hopkins told Boxing Scene.

The only problem is that he is challenging Golovkin at 175 lbs or at the light heavyweight division, exactly two classes above the middleweight mark, as reported by Boxing News 24.

Some fans may think there's really no trouble with that. After all, Triple G was more than willing to fight the former super middleweight champion Carl Froch even though he is also more massive than he is. Yet, fighting Hopkins from middle to light heavyweight will be catastrophic especially if he aims to go back to middleweight in time for his possible match with whoever will be declared the WBC middleweight champion in November. Losing muscle weight is a burden for boxers who moved up some divisions, noted the site.

With Carl Froch's retirement, the Kazakh's dream Golovkin vs Froch fight in the United Kingdom did not materialize. Although, "GGG" and his fans may have been disappointed because the fight didn't happen, it somehow puts Golovkin's plans more in order.

There are no confirmed bouts yet for Triple G, but Boxing Scene noted that there's a scheduled K2 Promotions fight on October 17 in New York. No details are supplied but if it turned out to be a "GGG" event, it is a great show of force for Cotto and Canelo to witness.

BoxingNews24 also noted ESPN's Dan Rafael's Twitter post that "GGG" will be seen in action on the ring before 2015 ends.

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